1784 · Early Spinning Mill · Werk 317 von 1.871

Bruegelmann's Cromford mill at Ratingen on the Anger: a tall five storey spinning house with regular rows of windows on every floor, a walled courtyard in front, a mill channel led from the river to a water wheel set against the building, the wheel turning under the mill, inside on the upper floors rows of wooden framed Arkwright water frames with upright spindles and bobbins below pairs of drawing rollers, driven by wooden shafts and gearing from the wheel, girls tending the spindles.